It was yet another privacy gaffe from the Google Street View project, which uses camera-equipped cars to photograph streetscapes from all angles.

The toddler was naked save for a pair of shoes and seen from the rear in one photo, with another photo showing his face but with his body blocked by a fence.

The boy's mother, Claire Rowlands, was not pleased. "It’s such a clear image, I see it as an indecent photograph – my concern is that paedophiles could see it and there’s no way I ever wanted my son to be seen naked all over the world," she told the Manchester Evening News.

The United Kingdom is currently investigating whether the Mountain View-based company broke local privacy laws when Street View cars captured private, unsecured data to and from wireless networks while driving by.

Jackson West was glad Google wasn't around when he played in the garden as a toddler au-naturel -- however, he's pretty sure his mother took plenty of embarrassing photos.